Mrs. Armstrong’s Amazing Second Grade

**We did it again! Ice cream fun will be coming soon!

**Oct. 29th Dads & Kids Pumpkin Carving Night coming soon. Call or email Robin Jorgensen to volunteer your help/goodies. Costumes welcome bring your own pumpkins, tools, and cleanup newspaper and be prepared for a marvelous time.

**Oct. 30th Halloween fun during the afternoon for the kids.

It’s a busy time of year filled with goal-setting, self-assessment, half days, and Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences.  With so much going on we need to take time to think about all the things we are thankful for at this time of year.   With our good harvest of learning skills, classroom friendships, family, and our warm homes filled with good food and friends, we have much to be thankful for.  On Wednesday, November 25th, we will have our Harvest Luncheon Feast and will include Readers’ Theater presentations about the First Thanksgiving for any parents in attendance.  Students may come dressed as either Pilgrims or Native Americans.  Students will sit on the classroom floor at paper tablecloths covered with Thankful Placemats and fall harvest decorations.  Please check with our Room Mom, Robin Jorgensen, about what you might like to prepare for the luncheon menu.  We want to keep it simple yet somewhat close to foods they might have enjoyed in a typical fall harvest meal.  We are preparing for our celebration by reading and writing about the First Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Iriquois and the Wampanoag Indians.  We look forward to having a nice end to our week of conferences and half days in preparation for our own family Thanksgiving Celebrations at home on Thursday.